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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by clowns They just want to make

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you laugh So they probably won't eat your face while

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you sleep All right a clown vigorously rubs his feet

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on the carpet He then calls on a volunteer and

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offers to shake hands with that volunteer That lovely clown

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volunteer subsequently receives a static shock Which of the following

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are correct explanations of the electricity principles at work in

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this situation from the evil plan i'd like to answer

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And here the odds Sure All right First of all

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clowns are just really creepy Yeah There we said it

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All right Moving on Due to the law of conservation

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of charge we know that in a closed system the

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total charge in the system does not increase or decrease

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So we can safely rule out option a And after

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delivering the shock the clown's charge wouldn't be negative because

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he's not generating extra electrons Plus by delivering shock his

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charge reverts to neutral So option b is incorrect too

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But what is happening Well electrons which are the charged

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particles that make up electricity are moving from the carpet

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to the clown Because of this process we know that

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option c is one of our correct answers when these

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electrons attached themselves to the clown clan has an imbalance

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charge and while the extra electrons needs somewhere to go

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it's saturday night now if he just stood still the

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electrons would gradually dissipate back into the carpet But if

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he touches something that's conductive and has a smaller negative

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charge than him well then sat And with that zap

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the clown discharges the extra electrons neutralizes his own charge

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So dee is our other correct answer Maybe we'll just 00:01:52.169 --> [endTime] get a pinata for a next party clown

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